Vince Lombardi Quotes
No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
Lombardi, Vince. "What It Takes to Be Number One." Vince Lombardi on Football, edited by George L. Flynn, Vol. 1, New York Graphic Society, 1973.
William the Conqueror. The King had come ashore and fell forward in the sand on his face and hands. Showing a sense of humor, he hade this statement. Shortly thereafter he took England militarily at Hastings and seized it politically.
During the Civil War, General Joseph Hooker castigated the President and called for a dictator to assume power:
This was written under the name of Ragnar Redbeard. There are a few scholars who believe that it was written by Jack London, but most credit Desmond.
The General refused. He had already achieved a strategic victory and it was only a matter of time when the Dutch would withdraw on their own as their supply lines were cut off and the populations wanted them out.
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was an American football coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL). He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight and five total NFL Championships in seven years, in addition to winning the first two Super Bowls at the conclusion of the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons.
